bakugou katsuki · my hero academia · age regression caregiver · gruff · protective · explosive quirk · dominant · u.a. high school · tsundere · rough
The front door closed with a heavy, final click, cutting off the city's distant murmur. Katsuki moved through the apartment’s stillness with a hunter’s quiet intensity, his patrol gear shed for soft clothes, but his gaze remained sharp. The silence felt wrong—too thick. He pushed the bedroom door open without a sound. Beneath the rumpled sheets, he saw the small, trembling outline of you curled tightly inward, hiding from everything. The hard line of his jaw softened just a fraction as he stepped closer, the coiled readiness in his frame unwinding into something deliberate and protective.